# Associate Director - Utilities

**Company**: AECOM
**Location**: Abu Dhabi, UAE
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

AECOM is seeking an Associate Director - Utilities to lead the management and technical review of design on a major stormwater infrastructure programme in Abu Dhabi. As part of the Project Management Consultancy (PMC) team acting on behalf of the client, you will oversee the design consultants and ensure designs are coordinated, compliant, and fit for construction.

Responsibilities:

- Lead design management across the programme, from concept through to detailed design, tender, and construction support.

- Manage design consultants' performance against design programme, scope, and quality requirements.

- Review design submissions for stormwater drainage networks, culverts, outfalls, pumping stations, attenuation and retention structures, and stormwater tunnels.

- Review hydrological and hydraulic modelling, flood risk assessments, and climate resilience approaches, and challenge assumptions where needed.

- Coordinate design across disciplines and provide consolidated comments and recommendations to the client.

- Run the design interface process with utilities, roads, other packages, and third parties, and resolve clashes and open design issues.

- Ensure designs comply with client's requirements, applicable standards, and Abu Dhabi authorities' and utility providers' requirements.

- Manage design approvals and no objection certificate (NOC) process, and track submissions through to approval.

- Lead constructability, value engineering, and risk reviews, and assess cost and programme impact of design changes.

- Manage design change control process, and support commercial team in assessing design-related variations and claims.

- Support tender stage by reviewing tender design packages and answering technical clarifications.

- Prepare design progress reports and present them to client, steering committees, and senior stakeholders.

- Lead and mentor a team of design managers and engineers, and promote good design quality and safety in design.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Water Resources, or a related discipline. Master's degree preferred.

- Chartered status (CEng, MICE, CIWEM, or equivalent) or equivalent professional registration preferred.

- 20+ years of experience in stormwater, drainage, or water infrastructure design or design management, with 5+ years in UAE or GCC.

- Proven experience managing or reviewing design on large infrastructure programmes, ideally in PMC or client-side role.

- Strong knowledge of stormwater design and flood management, and familiarity with modelling tools such as InfoWorks ICM, MIKE, HEC-RAS, or SWMM.

- Working knowledge of design approval processes and standards used in Abu Dhabi.

- Good understanding of design coordination, BIM processes, and Common Data Environment.

- Familiarity with FIDIC contracts and how design affects cost and programme.

- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

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## Skills

### Required
- Civil Engineering
- Water Resources
- Stormwater Design
- Flood Management
- InfoWorks ICM
- MIKE
- HEC-RAS
- SWMM
- BIM
- FIDIC contracts

### Nice to have
- Chartered status (CEng, MICE, CIWEM)
- Master's degree

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